Meteor Showers To Peak

DIGEST

August 11, 1986

GAINESVILLE -- Meteors are streaking through the Earth`s atmosphere during this year`s best celestial bombardment, and University of Florida astronomer Alex Smith says the heavenly show will reach its peak Tuesday night.

Called the Perseid meteor shower, Earthbound viewers may see an average 65 meteors flash across the sky per hour that night, he said.

KOCH RIPS DRUG TESTS

NEW YORK -- Mayor Edward I. Koch Sunday criticized the Reagan administration`s call for voluntary drug testing in the workplace, asserting that ``the person using drugs is not going to volunteer.``

Instead, the federal government should use military force to stop the flow of drugs into the country and mount a campaign to educate people to the hazards of drug abuse, Koch said on CBS-TV`s Face the Nation.

NUKE TEST SITE REVEALED

SAO PAULO, Brazil - The daily La Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper Sunday published an aerial photograph to support its claims that Brazil has an underground nuclear test zone the size of the Netherlands.

The government denied the original report in Friday`s edition. But the newspaper said Sunday the site was in the sparsely populated Cachimbo mountains in Para state.

STUDENTS WANT WEALTH

NEW YORK -- The Me Generation has given way to the Mine Generation: College students want to make a lot of money and a good many of them think being a millionaire before the age of 35 is important, a survey shows.

College Watch `86, a study sponsored by a trade association of college stores, also shows that students are conservative beer drinkers who do not trust politicians and disapprove of sex before marriage.